Zambia qualified to the second round or the CHAN qualifiers with a nail biting 6 – 5 penalty win over Namibia after the two teams had played to a 3 – 3 aggregate draw.
Zambia cruised to a 2 – 1 victory on the day over a well organized Namibian side with goals from Festus Mbewe in the first half and Winstone Kalengo in the second.
Naimbia had equalised just before half time.
Kalengo who scored Zambia’s lone goal in the first leg could have sent Zambia to the next round in injury time but he failed to convert a clear chance.
He however picked himself up to score the winning penalty in sudden death of penalties after Munyao had saved Namibia’s sixth penalty.
For Zambia, only Joseph Zimba failed to convert his spot kick.
Zambia had lost to Namibia in two consexutive matches first in the Cosafa Cup before they completed a double over Zambia when they beat George Lwandamina’s side in Windhoek.
Zambia XI:
1. Danny Munyao3. Joseph Zimba4. Christopher Munthali5. Buchizya Mfune6. Jack Chirwa9. Festus Mbewe (Patson Daka) 10. Saith Sakala (Moses Phiri)14. Kondwani Mtonga15. Winston Kalengo17. Benedict Chepeshi18. Jackson Mwanza (Charles Zulu)
We still need a lot of investment in talent identification and the development on a youth league….
Iyo kwena we are now sweating to beat Namibia, no disrespect to our neighbors I know their football has improved a lot but Zambia to qualify in this manner should sound alarm bells that something is not right in our game
Congratualations zambia but we still need experienced players like Jacob mulenga, Rodger Kola, chris katis in Afcon qualifying
I mean qualify to the next round cause people might misunderstand me
Well done chaps! Now back to the real issue here, what’s delaying the recruitment of the new coach? He needs to come in ASAP to know the players he’ll be drilling. Did Faz learn anything from what happened when they fired Janza and hired “Chicken” with five days to a crucial Alcon match?
Afcon
finally it haped,thank u boys more especialy festus mbewe,go chipolopolo mozambique is a next taget.
we have struggled indeed
Well done boys but Zambia’s technical needs start getting serious coz its clear this team won’t qualify for CHAN with this kind of display and using players like 30year olds Kalengo and J.Mwanza. Yes one of them scored but if we building team for the future, are 30year olds also part of the future?
@Popeye, you must be very young. how can 30 yrs be old? Where were you when Zambia started preparing for future? I thought future started 2 years ago?
In football being 30yrs old means u hearding towards retirement. Correct me if am wrong..
You have a point, I agree with you we arent saying 30 years is biologically OLD, but building a new generation of a National Team with players of 30, is not a good strategy because a 30yr old player in football he is a fossil.
I don’t agree with you @Judge Joe Bidden on this matter. This is where we have lost the plot in our football. A mix is always important otherwise enthusiasm alone without experience is a costly venture.
What youth system do we have as a country to talk about? Look at all our underage teams coming through this year. If you don’t include the 30 year plus players we wont go anywhere. Patrick Ngoma has enthusiasm but lucks experience that Kalengo brings to the game. In short you need a balance between the young enthusiastic and mature experienced players as well as getting the balance of qualification and exposure.
A win is a win but am not impressed considering the fact that penalty shoot-out cn easily go either way.This just shows that our frontline is still blunt.
And where is Lubambo Musondo? Is he active or not? What happened in almenia?
We qualified the next round of Chan qualifiers unconvincingly! Faz needs to take full advantage of the little luck we had today and employ a coach who is going to pick players on merit and use them correctly.Next time we might not be this lucky and get knocked out of the race to Chan.
Zamfoot u shuld also gives us the player ratings bcoz some of us didn’t watch the match
our small boys hav failed us, so its da old forks that know were the goal is.
Am not convinced, this is not the zambia we in terms of football. Honestly how can we be proud of winning ba Namibia in penalties, awe bane let us be serious. To me that doesn’t turn tables that we are still far from getting to where we in in 2012.
Bola ya pa zed good skills but ma goals kaya maybe madala
bola yapa zed go in rural areas u recruit players.never mind chizungu but we have skilled young players who re better than players i watch in the national team.i have un idea why cant we call the players like jacob mulenga emma mayuka back in the team thoz boys need to give or boost the moral in da team.we dont need experiments anymore.
Renard started building a new team around the likes of Mbewe, ngong’a, bornwell Mwape, as our strikers, had these guys been kept by his successor may be they would have formed an understanding by now but his successor started to build his own team an that’s why we find ourselves in this situation.
We need to identify some players if we are to proceed in chan games
how was the game ba zamfoot.
It’s nice that we have gone through to the second round though our display left less to write home about.much still needs to be done,we can’t go on like this,struggling beating Namibia sure!
There are lot of mish mash in the way football is being managed in zambia.We need to seriously identify and sort out these abnormalities otherwise it will be “aluta continua”
It’s nice to see a positive result after so much negativity. Zambia cant take a single thing for granted, we have to work to beat every team we face.
What makes good reading is that Zambia manged to hussle in the second half and win the game, all too often in recent times we have been out foxed and hussled in the seconded half. I hope we changed that so that each team that plays is going to out smart the opposition and out hussle them!!!
A big congratulations Chicken George, but of course the job is not over. This is not the first time George has been tasked with qualifying Zambia, he has been before. This is very good opportunity for him. I hope he can use all his experience he has to deliver Zambia to Chan. He has allot now and he must show it.
He should be ready to do it.
Congrats ba Zambia tho we still far 4rm our former self.
Those young players you are advocating for have no stamina, endurance, experience. They have skills but no direction give chance to the coach he will start roping them bit by bit as they gain experience and technical approach.
Sure Zambia is a spent force, go to the wire with stupid useless footballing Nations like Namibia,GB and the likes.Somebody somewhere is not doing his job.I know that alot of countries have improved so are we,that is why we now play against the likes of Chile,Brazil,Japan,so i expect the lads just roll over Namibia with easy.Kalu please now make a line up which will qualify us so that we redeem our selves and also you will be able to market these lads hence it will be a win win situation.
Congrats to the Boys for the win. Work harder in the next round.
Congratulating nonsense,really? We have to give credit we it’s due Yes! But lets look at the bigger picture and face the reality that the standards of football in Zambia are going down! Namibia is a team we used to beat by at least two goals at the least and now we are on the same level with them and people are even celebrating to me thats rubbish.
stupid useless football nations like Namibia ???? Be mindful of your language . If we classify Namibia as such, we should not be worried when our west african friends classify us in a similar way. Let us be respectful in how we talk about others, even in the game of football
I observed some critical areas which is costing us a lot. I challenge the coach and those close to FAZ officials to advise the coach and work on the following seriously. 1. The combination of Muntali and Buchizya was very wrong, those defenders where allowing the ball to bounce. This could have costed us a lot if we had played teams like Brazil, Ghana, or Cape Verde. 2. We kept on allowing the opponent to push us up to four yards from the 18 area which is absurd. For these two critical areas please mr coach work on them otherwise we are still domed.
If this teams wants to qualify they have allot of improving to do, allot of togetherness to accomplish. Just think the one and only time Zambia qualified to Chan Kalaba was in the team and playing locally.
it will not be easy, we must push. This coach and these local players must find something.
I am starting a new debate Zamfoot, please tell Faz about the availability of Steven Keshi Nigeria just terminated his contract he will fit into the Zambian set up. only him betters Renard’s record. Kesh qualified Togo to the world cup, got Nigeria the Africa cup as a player in the team that beat us in 94, and won the cup as a coach on 2013. What do the fellow bloggers say? The head hunting of Faz is slow in my view, we need a.formidable coach who will.enhance the Chipopolo brand. not experimental starters. We are a powerhouse not fringe powerhouse. big brand for big names
Keshi could be available and is cheaper. He is a very patient coach. We need to employ a coach who should reach 2018 after the world cup than the months contracts that we give coaches.
But the person that I think fitted into the Deputy Minister’s description of the new Coach is the former Tunisian coach who quite last week. it appears Keshi may be going to Ivory Coast!
we need an expatret coach lwadamina has failed, he has struggled 2 beat minows like (namibia,in 2016 chan qualifier) & (mbabane swallows of swaziland in 2015 caf champions ligue) & failed 2 beat (guinea bissau in 2017 afcon qualifier) & (kaloum stars of guinea in 2015 caf champions ligue). we are going no where with this pathetic coach.
we need an expatret coach lwadamina struggled 2 beat minows like (namibia,in 2016 chan qualifier) & (mbabane swallows of swaziland in 2015 caf champions ligue) & failed 2 beat (guinea bissau in 2017 afcon qualifier) & (kaloum stars of guinea in 2015 caf champions ligue). we are going no where with this pathetic coach.
We Need The Former Tunisian Coach Georges Leekens 2 Coach Zambia, He Has No Contrac So Far.
with this chicken lwandanina, zambia wil be betean in nirobi kenya, by that time wil not hv a chance 2 top the group & qualify to 2017 afcon, mark my words in red.
why can’t we take back HR. he by far the only coach who knows the players…